On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Jennifer Spencer <jenniferm...@hotmail.com>wrote:
> You are sure that the XID wraparound is gone? That's good news. No other > reasons for vacuum full on the entire database. > I think we're talking apples and gorillas on the use of the word 'full'. There is a command: VACUUM FULL; When you do that, you lock a table and much hatred reigns upon you from user-land. When you: vacuum all databases in a cluster (notice, no 'FULL' here), (could be through autovacuum) You are doing a vacuum that is capable of operating alongside transactions. XID wrap-around is still an issue, but if you have autovacuum on and you pay attention to your logs, you'll be okay. > > We could do it a table at a time if we absolutely have to do it, and that > would minimize down time on the rest of the system. > No need, see above. Also, a quick note about your growth pattern (~ 1 TB / year) If you're going to be growing that much, index builds on a TB of data really stink. You may want to look into constraint_exclusion partitioning (maybe by quarter or something easy to chunk up ) would be worth-while. When you do need to do index rebuilds, you can: A) Do them concurrently Rebuilding an index becomes CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY my_index_1 .... DROP INDEX my_index_0; ANALYZE table; That way, you aren't blocking during that rebuild. B) Your indexes will be a subset of your data, in my example, you'd only be building one quarter's worth of indexes. C) It's possible that after a quarter is over, you won't even need to reindex because maybe you won't need data from a previous quarter. Good - glad to be wrong about that! We do mostly inserts, no updates and > very few deletes. We drop entire tables but don't delete often. We have > very long rows, though. Do you think the above is a situation likely to > create extreme bloat? I wonder, what do you use to decide when to reindex? Under this situation, it's very possible that you don't need to do it all that often. Are you just flying 'willy-nilly' about reindexing things, or is there some indicator you use? --Scott > > -Jennifer > > > > I _think_ autovacuum, somewhere around early 8.x resolves the > transaction > > > wrap-around issues, but someone else should verify that. > > > > Ayup. > > > > -- > > Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) > > To make changes to your subscription: > > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin > > ------------------------------ > Lauren found her dream laptop. Find the PC that’s right for > you.<http://www.microsoft.com/windows/choosepc/?ocid=ftp_val_wl_290> >